Sha Tin Che Kung Temple
Taoist temple honouring a Song Dynasty general, famed for its windmill wheel spun for luck each Lunar New Year.
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This guide to Sha Tin's Che Kung Temple in Hong Kong opens with a plague that swept the valley in the sixteen hundreds, and the villagers who dug through old texts for a name that might save them: Che Kung, a Song Dynasty general said to clear disease wherever he marched. It follows his life defending imperial princes against the Mongol invasion, and how a soldier who never knew his own legend became a Taoist god of protection. Look for the copper wheel beside his effigy as you listen for what devotees do with it.
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